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Web services interoperability

The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) exists to promote good practice in the development of Web services as well as tests for interoperability between different Web service providers. WS-I provides test tools and interpretability profiles. WS-I profiles define a specific set of Web service standards specified to the standards revision number and guidelines on interpretability and implementation specific to that profile. If a provider of a Web service guarantees that it has been developed to a specific WSI-I profile, then a consumer is in no doubt about how to use the Web service. The WS-I Basic Profile (BP) is the core profile provided by WS-I and concerns the Web service standards SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI.

Note: Rational Application Developer provides support for the generation of Web services from both session EJB and JavaBeans. The development of Web Services is covered in detail in Chapter | 8, Developing Web services applications.

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